Duly delivered.

Côte Brasserie. Needing a cooked breakfast 🍳

William Blake, poet and printmaker, was born #OnThisDay 1757 BBC In Our Time

The Royal Hotel. Wine before bed 🍷

The Alchemist. A negroni.🍸

Tramshed. Fat White Family 🎵

Liberty Park. Nial’s House.

Madame Bobalú 🍷

Fantastic tapas and wine at Curado Bar, Cardiff, including Cabrales, my favourite blue cheese, and carpaccio de bacalao ahumado.

Curado Bar. Brilliant tapas.

How Utopia shaped the world — link on bbc.com 🔗

Been shopping - now fully equipped for Xmas cake making this weekend. Apprehensive because last time I tried this the cake was terrible and ended up in the bin. But that was about 25 years ago…

Media misrepresentations of the Labour party are being used strategically to create left wing folk devils and moral panic – link from Politics and Insights 🔗

Listening to Thanks for the Dance, the album of Leonard Cohen’s final songs. 🎵

What is immediately striking about Thanks for the Dance is how organic these meticulously constructed songs sound, given that five of them were assembled from the barest musical sketches and four others from lyrics Leonard had recited, but not put to music. It sounds, above all, like a labour of love, and one that is entirely faithful to Cohen’s abiding spirit.

Adam Cohen on Leonard: ‘It was daunting finishing my dad’s last music' – link 🔗

Outbatted, outbowled, outplayed. New Zealand beat England by an innings and 65 runs in the first Test at Mount Maunganui. An exhibition of how to comprehensively win a 5 day game of cricket. 🏏